NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with the State of New York Executive Chamber confirming the department’s claims that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and retaliation that affected at least 13 female staffers.
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The harassment that Cuomo’s Executive Chamber participated in is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex and other demographic markers, and forbids employer retaliation against those who report discrimination, the DOJ said.
The investigation, conducted by the department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, found that Cuomo “(1) subjected female employees to a sexually hostile work environment; (2) tolerated that environment and failed to correct the problem on an agency-wide basis and (3) retaliated against employees who spoke out about the harassment.”